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Fragile Water Layer
The water on our planet is more fragile than we ever thought. Even though the oceans cover 3/4 parts of the planet’s surface, here we will realize that the oceans are really a very thin and fragile layer compared with the real dimensions of our …
ART MARKET ANALYSIS: AUCTIONS RESULTS from New York, November 2022
Image: Christie’s Images Limited 2022 on news.artnet.com On Saturday, ten days of auction sales at New York’s Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips came to an end and proudly brought in USD 2,936,534,801 in total, a number that in itself signals market confidence. However, 55% of it was owed to the sale of the collection of late Microsoft founder Paul …
Art Auctions Results, London, October 2022.
To read the whole document, the controls for turning pages and zooming in or out are at the bottom left corner above. Last week’s London 20th / 21st Century Art sales, which coincided with Frieze London art fair, showed a strong focus on contemporary art. …
Infinite Patterns
Cristóbal Vila Connecting geometry, nature, and architecture This is a new personal project that seeks to establish connections between various fields that interest me deeply: geometry, and how it appears linked to nature, on the one hand, and to art and architecture, on the other; …
First Images from the Webb Space Telescope.
Scientists have waited for a generation to see the stunning images that the James Webb Telescope is now delivering. In a live online Q+A, Brian Greene will speak with Nobel Prize-winner John Mather and other key project scientists about the telescope’s first full-color images, looking …
Irwin Cotler – The Retreat of Democracies: Through the Lens of Political Prisoners
Few have done as much to right the world’s wrongs as Irwin Cotler. As an international human rights lawyer, Irwin counselled political prisoners and activists, including anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela and Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky. He served the Canadian people as Member of Parliament for Mount …
Strong Market for XX Century Art.
The packed two-week-long Marquee Sales in New York this May loudly confirmed a strong art market despite the ongoing effects of the global health crisis and the geopolitical situation in Eastern Europe impacting the economy. This is particularly true for higher-priced artworks with an average …
Elon Musk talks about Twitter, Tesla, and how his brain works at TED 2022.
In this unedited conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Elon Musk — the head of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company — digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, …
